Calendar.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

J. N. PARKER.

CALENDAR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24, 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

l'atented June 5, 1906.

Application filed November 24:, 1905. Serial No. 288,870.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH NIoHoLAs PARKER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Bedford City, in the county of Bedford andState of Vir inia, have invented a new and Improved Calendar andBlotter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved calendar and blotter.Fig. 2 is an end view of the same and Fig. 3 is an enlarged verticalsection through a portion of the device, illustrating one of thesuspension-rings in side elevation.

The body A of the device consists of a series of leaflets 10, which arein the form of a pad; but each leaflet is preferably independent of theother, yet they are suspended by the same means, as will be hereinafterdescribed. Each leaflet may be made entirely of blotting-paper, althoughpreferably, as illustrated, each leaflet is provided with an outercalendered or hard face 11, suitable for printing upon, and an innerface 12, which is a blottin -surface.

On the outer face 11 of each leaflet 10 the names of the days and thedates of one week in a year are produced in consecutive order and in anysuitable or approved manner; but preferably the figures are arranged ina single line. The series of leaflets 10 is provided with apertures 1 3,which extend through from the front leaflet to the rear leaflet, andthese apertures are arranged, preferably, one at each side of thecenter. Suspension-rings 14 are used in connection with the series 10 ofleaflets, and the said suspension-rings are of triangular shape, as isshown in Fig. 3, the horizontal member being a long member, and thehorizontal members of these rings are passed through the said apertures13 in the series 10 of leaflets, so that when the rings 14 are suspendedthe leaflets will hang perpendicularly from the rings close together yetone free from the other.

The suspension-rings 14 at their upper or reduced portions are passedthrough eyelets 15 adjacent to the lower edge of a suspensionboard 16,which board is usually provided also with an eyelet 17 in the centralportion of its upper edge, adapted to receivea nail or a hook attachedto the wall, a desk, or other support. Usually panels are provided onthe outer face 11 of a leaflet for advertising matter, and the entiresuspension-board 16 may be utilized for a like purpose.

In operation at the beginning of each week the combined calendar andblotter-leaflet showing the previous week is pulled off, and the removedleaflet is used as a blotter, and the neXt exposed leaflet will show thecalendar for the current week.

The perforations or apertures 13 at the upper edge of the leaflets arenear enough to the edge to admit of a leaflet being easily torn off andare yet sufficiently removed from the edge to sustain the weight of aleaflet.

As the leaflets usually represent weekly calendars, large clear figuresmay be used,

and as there is but one line of figures a common error of confusing thesame days of the different weeks of the months is averted.

The calendar may be made for a quarter of a year or for ahalf of a yearor anylength of time to suit the seasons of the advertiser.

The calendar may also be made for use as a monthly calendar with onlytwelve leaflets, on each of which is printed the calendar of a month.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A calendar comprising a series of leaflets, asuspension-board, and triangular links conneoting the ends of theleaflets and the ends of the board, the apex of the links beingconnected to the board and the base thereof passing through alinedopenings in the leaflets vsihereby to permit said leaflets to hang paralel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPl-I NICHOLAS PARKER.

Witnesses:

J. M. DANIEL, M. T. HARRISON.

